I may have a slight backlog when it comes to blogging about my projects… perhaps like… 7 as Marvin would say. It’s actually a really real problem, because feeding the monster inside you, getting the dopamin requires constant spice flow. Coding with Claude might as well be a Class A narcotic, cause I can feel the Claude Effect, and it’s hazy!
Once you complete a project, it’s like the aether is wearing off… I could write a post about the project I just completed, while it’s fresh in my mind, and I really should. However… vibe coding is an instant dopamin hit. That kicks. Every. Single. Time. Sixty percent of the time!
When there’s nothing left dying for, what will you live for?
Yes, I might be stuck in a self destructive Skinner Box, and yes, it’s probably not good for me. Vibe coding has all the qualifications of a dangerous addictive recursive loop. You know, like a slot machine? Pull a lever and see not IF you win, but WHAT you win. Triggering the reward center in my brain, just about all the fucking time.
I guess whatever makes you feel good, will eventually become your addiction. Whether it’s cumming backstage with Arnold, shooting heroin, or rolling the LLM dice. At least I can pretend that this is ok. It may destroy my motivation long term… but sure do I feel like I Live Again! *badumtss*
Dopamine Hits to Digital Rebirth
The idea was to test something called Animated Video (timeline-based motion design) in Claude Design. Rolling through my stack of domains, I tried to find the one domain where I could use this and get something out of it. ILiveAgain.com was registered way back in 2007, what the original idea was is lost. Though I’m 100% sure it was a reference to the first line said in the 90s game Blood.
I’m going to leave it up to interpretation. An art installation if you will. Anywho! I started with explaining my ideas to Claude Web, which he helped me refine into useful prompts. Not only for Claude Design, but also for Grok Imagine. Telling the story required images that conveyed my idea, while also constraining to a style that looks coherent when shown one after the other.
For the overly interested, I added separate images for the 404 and 403 pages that also tell parts of the story, but in a more… well, as I said, it’s up for interpretation. I know what I wanted this to tell me. What does this fartsy video give you?